Word: cupped
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...edited by Robert Phelps. Colette (1873-1954) was the most important woman novelist (Chéri, Gigi, Mitsou, Claudine) the French have produced in a century; this magnificent collection of her random reminiscences shows that she was just as important as a memoirist, a female Montaigne who drank the cup of folly till she tasted the dregs of wisdom...
...from seeking a stronger role for the Federal Government-as it sometimes has been thought to do-creative federalism not only asks states and cities to do more on their own, but challenges the concept that governmental power is a one-level reservoir from which every cup drawn by Washington means a loss for someone else. Instead, as Max Ways wrote in FORTUNE, "creative federalism starts from the contrary belief that total power -private and public, individual and organizational-is expanding very rapidly...
...partaking more from the cup of corruption than is normal even in the Thai tradition of doing business cum government, harvested close to $140 million, kept some 100 "minor wives" (i.e., mistresses). The King, in contrast, is something of a Buddhist puritan, as well as being totally devoted to his Queen-a monogamousness almost incredible in Siamese monarchs. His grandfather, for example, had 92 wives...
...mother bear and her cubs cup the air in their paws, warily sniffing the scent of a passing boat. Schools of porpoises and killer whales gambol in the offshore depths. From dense, wet cedar trees comes the heavy smell of primeval forest as the boat moves past the maze of islands, deep-cut fjords and ice-hung mountains that make up British Columbia's spectacular coastline. Last week, with the inauguration of the new $7,000,000 Queen of Prince Rupert car ferry, the whole coastline became readily accessible for the first time to U.S. tourists bound for Alaska...
Lowell House reaffirmed its superiority in the racket sports by adding the tennis championship to the Prentice Squash Cup it won this fall...